'my Little Girl Was Sick'

Chris Bodenner, The Atlantic: Health
Tue, 01/19/2016 - 10:48am

'My Little Girl Was Sick'

Another reader contributes a deeply personal and heartbreaking story to our series: I’ve read the different women’s reasons for abortion, and mine is a bit different, so I think it’s important to hear another side: a wanted and planned little girl. I am now 28, but I was 25 when I got pregnant for the first time.

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